Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Prior to her role at MATC, Martinez Powless accumulated 17 years of higher education experience at Marquette University and MATC, working in administration, enrollment, student affairs, and multicultural outreach. Martin has since retired, and the college is now led by President Anthony Cruz, who is Hispanic.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

One Year After Massive Cuts, West Virginia Is Still Bleeding Faculty, Administrators Ryan Quinn Mon, 09/09/2024 - 03:00 AM The university courted controversy by slashing programs and laying off both tenured and nontenured faculty members. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The increasingly aggressive stance toward the sector among both federal and state politicians, growth in faculty departures, ongoing staff burnout, and persistent dearth of enrollment among low-income, rural, and male-identified students are all troubling too.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In his sophomore year of college, Williams had begun to struggle academically and financially, but the leadership and faculty at Xavier gave him the opportunity to continue his education. Because of the dean leads, the vice provost, the team members working with me, we were able to do great things with faculty and faculty fellows.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 22, 2025

The ongoing faculty strike at Wellesley College reveals, in stark terms, the reality of the two-tier faculty system that has come to define much of American higher education. At Wellesley, non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty make up about 30 percent of the teaching staff but are responsible for teaching 40 percent of the colleges classes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

AAUP President Dr. Irene Mulvey made this case in a May 22 statement durimh the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing with higher education administrators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2024

Minouche Shafik The university has been embroiled in controversy since antiwar demonstrations reached a fever pitch in the spring of 2024. Many on faculty at the university expressed no-confidence in the administration partly for its aggressive response to on-campus demonstrations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

That quote, inspired by famed civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, comes from an open letter sent on April 16, 2024 to Dr. Neeli Bendapudi, president of The Pennsylvania State University. “We Proportionately, the percentage of Black faculty fell from 4% to 3%. Racism came from administrators, colleagues, and even students.

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University Business

DECEMBER 18, 2024

College and university professors are reconsidering how they speak to their colleagues, their administrators and in classrooms as they fear how their viewpoints might damage their reputationand even employability according to the latest survey by this free speech watchdog. The post Has faculty free speech plunged to its absolute lowest?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The American Association of Colleges and Universities ( AAC&U ) has announced the 2024 recipients of the annual K. The 2024 K. Patricia Cross Award — in honor of the legacy of distinguished university administrator, researcher, and teacher K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

What’s Really at Stake When Colleges Lose Faculty of Color? Sarah Bray Fri, 02/02/2024 - 03:00 AM Top administrators must respond to increasingly pervasive legislation that hinders the recruitment, retention and vital work of those faculty members, writes Jackie Pedota. Byline(s) Jackie Pedota

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although most colleges and universities are scrambling to moderate precisely how students should be allowed to use it, faculty and administrators are inviting its use systemwide. The post 3 ways faculty and administrators are embracing AI beyond the classroom appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

MARCH 6, 2025

are increasingly under pressure to address burnout among faculty. According to a 2024 Healthy Minds Network survey , more than half of faculty and staff said their job negatively affected their mental or emotional health, with nearly six in 10 reporting feeling burnt out because of work. Higher ed leaders across the U.S.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

More than half of all executive leaders said they’re not harnessing the power of generative AI to prepare students for the future, upskill faculty teaching and empower non-faculty with the tools. Even more disconcerting, 59% believe spring 2024 graduates were not ready to enter a workforce where these skills are important.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2025

Her administrative experience includes serving as campus provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of California at Santa Cruz and vice provost and dean at Arizona State University. She will succeed Dr. Suresh Garimella, who led UVM from 2019 until October 2024 when he became president of the University of Arizona.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) and Hillel International are expanding their partnership to deepen the organizations’ critical work with college and university presidents and administrators to combat rising antisemitism on campus. Following the publication of the U.S. In the wake of the spike of antisemitism seen after Hamas’ Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

The report – produced from interviews with public Florida college faculty – also found that: Florida Gov. Meanwhile, DeSantis launched his 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature are using their ongoing takeover of New College of Florida as a test case for future encroachments on public U.S.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

This spring is going to be quite busy for me with three faculty searches, our once-a-decade academic program review, the most travel for presentations that I have had since before the start of the pandemic, and responding to a host of media and policymaker requests about what will be happening over the next few months. B., & Feldman, D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Must Leave Harvard After 8 Years. Ryan Quinn Mon, 10/28/2024 - 03:00 AM The university’s contingent teachers unionized in the spring. Before they sign their first agreement, they want administrators to stop limiting their contract renewals. They’re Calling for That to End. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Dr. Ted Mitchell “ The Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: 2024 Status Report ” comprises updated data showing significant disparities in attainment levels among underrepresented groups by race and ethnicity despite growing diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2023

He previously announced that he would step down at the end of the current 2023-2024 school year and return as a communications professor. Rothman said he has placed Gow on paid administrative leave as he transitions into his faculty role, filed a complaint to review Gow's tenure status, and has contacted an outside law firm to investigate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

“Keeping Score When It Counts: Academic Progress/Graduation Success Rate Study of the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament Teams,” provides a comprehensive analysis of the academic performance of student-athletes on teams competing in the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments, which commence this week.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In 2024, we maintain our commitment and are poised to continue to “push back” on the current anti-DEI rhetoric and policies. Four years later, the pendulum has shifted.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. Public Administration Review, 78 (4), 626-639. FAFSA and beyond: How advisers manage their administrative burden in the financial aid process. link ) Billings, M. Clayton, A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

And the school is even “conservatively forecasting” a “break-even balanced budget for fiscal year 2024,” according to NJCU President Andrés Acebo. Some of those difficult decisions had to do with cutting employees – faculty and professional staff – and downsizing NJCU’s academic offerings. Enrollment was going down.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2025

April 8, 2025 · Episode 254 Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education 36 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. Learn how higher ed leaders can turn faculty survey data into strategy, improve shared governance, and increase retention and leadership trust.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

student affairs administration/higher education, Ball State University, Teachers College; Certificate, College and University Teaching, Ball State University, Teachers College; Ph.D., Sáenz is the associate dean for Student Success, Community Engagement & Administration at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Victor B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

Dr. Frank Fernandez, an associate professor of higher education administration and policy at the University of Florida, called the TICAS's recommendations “ambitious.” The 2024-25 maximum Pell Grant covers just 26% of the costs of attending college. Can students get childcare, or food? Can they have healthcare?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Community colleges will have funding to support endowed chair positions for faculty. Establish faculty academies to train former community college students who are enrolled in master’s and doctorate programs and who want to become community college faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Lizette Navarette will become the next president of Woodland Community College, effective January 2024, The Appeal-Democrat reported. in political science and international relations from University of California, Riverside; a master’s in public administration from University of La Verne; and a doctorate in education from UC Davis.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

With just nine majors in the 2024-25 school year, it cut over 75% of its majors, reduced enrollment to 350 students and let go of staff to raise revenue. The pandemic occurs, steepening downward trending enrollment and shortening administrators window to adjust operational strategy. A record $1.5 Year founded: 1997 Wells College (N.Y.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

At the same time, the deans are talking to their faculty about the data in the classroom that faculty are using. The faculty get this sense of curiosity and personal reflection that helps them to improve course design that then improves outcomes for more students. They were also backed up on their homework assignments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It’s now common knowledge among college administrators and staff that many students experience shortfalls of the essentials. And it’s why in early 2024 Education Northwest is launching a new, free national community of practice for anyone and everyone who wants to learn and grow together. Let’s commit to that goal for 2024.

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University Business

JANUARY 28, 2025

Mergers and acquisitions accelerate, making restructuring a major issue Well see a substantial uptick in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the year ahead, along with closures that force students and faculty to migrate to different institutions. increase in unionized faculty and a 133% surge in unionized GSEs since 2012.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

It really is a structural erasure of queer and trans individuals,” says Dr. Ángel de Jesús González, an assistant professor of higher education administration and leadership at Fresno State. They are already pushing back on central administration — presidents, chancellors, provosts. “We, In Texas, Senate Bill 17 took effect on Jan.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 10, 2024

3 More Tips for Faculty Members New to Administrative Roles marylchurchill… Wed, 07/10/2024 - 03:00 AM Navigating culture, structure and systems: advice for new faculty administrators. Byline(s) Jessica Pesce Patrice Torcivia Prusko

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A Clash Over Core Curriculum at New College of Florida Josh Moody Tue, 10/29/2024 - 03:00 AM Faculty say administrators at the public liberal arts institution are changing core course offerings in a way that is ideologically driven and harmful to students. Byline(s) Josh Moody

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